How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.

Published on 03-30-2011 04:19 AM

For those of us who live in parts of the world where high speed Internet is still a luxury, there’s a massive amount of jealousy that happens when we see huge numbers. In a thread over on Reddit where members of Google’s Chrome team are answering questions, we’ve just gotten a peek at Google’s Internet connection:

Now, let’s put these numbers into perspective. According to Ookla’s Net Index, the average speed for a country in Europe is around 12 Mb/second. For the US, it’s around 10. I’m on the high end of this, personally, with a 25 Mbit home connection. Even still, the connection being used for this test is over 20 times faster than my “high speed” Internet at home.
What does that equate to in “real world” numbers? As the thread’s authors posted, here is a screenshot of them downloading the video game Rift:

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that’s 32 megabytes per second. To break that down even further, a typical HD rip of a movie, running 4 gigabytes, would be downloaded in full in around 2 minutes.

Pardon me. I’m going to go cry myself to sleep now.

Source: TNW

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17 Comments

duke0102 - 03-30-2011, 09:15 AM
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A ping of 3ms? Needs must I guess lmao

predateur - 03-30-2011, 09:21 AM
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its not fair

josh87 - 03-30-2011, 09:49 AM
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is that all? /end sarcasm, sigh my net is 24 Mbits and i was happy with that now it looks terrible again lol

iLOVENZB - 03-30-2011, 11:17 AM
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Now I wonder what the speed test would show if there was no traffic

predateur - 03-30-2011, 01:20 PM
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FASTER THEN 99% OF US ... lol

godofhell - 03-30-2011, 01:21 PM
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I thought my 50/20 at home was fast

ME WANT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by duke0102

A ping of 3ms? Needs must I guess lmao

Cant even form a sentence ehhh Duke hehehe

duke0102 - 03-30-2011, 02:00 PM
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@godofhell
Sorry, I forgot the grammar nazis were around

Cabalo - 03-30-2011, 02:30 PM
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For the torrenters, can you imagine the buffer you could build in a single month ?

brilman - 03-30-2011, 02:31 PM
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so that's how to stop my Premature ejaculation, faster porn

Cloud91690 - 03-30-2011, 02:43 PM
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Holy shit. When the hell do we get in on this? Do we? I hope. I'll cry, if not.

godofhell - 03-30-2011, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by duke0102

@godofhell
Sorry, I forgot the grammar nazis were around

i meant that you got so excited about the speed that couldn't form a sentence ... not that you're illiterate

duke0102 - 03-30-2011, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by godofhell

Originally Posted by duke0102

@godofhell
Sorry, I forgot the grammar nazis were around

i meant that you got so excited about the speed that couldn't form a sentence ... not that you're illiterate

Sorry m8, I jumped the gun there lol

mr.Dman - 03-30-2011, 11:14 PM
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So,
Kansas City is getting the google internet. Was hoping Hopkins was going to get it.

Cabalo - 03-31-2011, 12:11 AM
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Did you guys propose to change the name of the city, like other did?

dlukym - 03-31-2011, 09:52 PM
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Mike is always backwards
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1230135111.png

Ryuodjin - 04-01-2011, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Cloud91690

Holy shit. When the hell do we get in on this? Do we? I hope. I'll cry, if not.

we can if we have loads of money, just rent your internet from mainline distributors. last time i check there are only 9 throughout the world. im not sure how many there are at present.